Sunday Things-Construction/Deconstruction, TV Time, Organization and Bucket lists

It's Sunday afternoon, and I'm listening to my son put together a large Ikea dresser, after he put his old dresser in my sewing room studio, where it looms. Seriously, I'm happy to have it. I can get rid of some of those storage stacking basket type things. As you can see with the size of my room, I can't even get a full picture of the dresser and the drawers up close. There is work to be done! 

In order to have a double duty item when he moves (he's also on an apartment waiting list), and to accomodate the new TV he purchased (after he gave me his old one) he moved from a really high but more narrow dresser to one that is low and wide.  Surprisingly, while I do hear the occasional self muttering, nothing has been injured to date, and the swear words have yet to fly. An unusual circumstance with Ikea furniture, I can tell you from experience. Some of us are visual learners and some of us need/want the word descriptions as well as the pictures, you know? 

Of course, to make things more difficult, the corner desk he is getting rid of would not go out the door in one piece and would not disassemble. So if we didn't need a bagster before with all of our yard waist and household "let's get rid of this and let's get rid of that" we do now.  Thankfully, I would able to schedule a pick up for all the bags of clothing and such separate from that.

I'm now the proud owner of my own bedroom TV. I haven't had a television in my bedroom since I was probably sixteen (although this one is a mere 24 inches). But I'm going to embrace it for the moment as evenings around here involve three people with three completely different ideas of good television! One watches mainly reality TV, you all should have a pretty good idea of what I watch and my son ranges from sports to my kind of TV depending. So far I've actually fallen asleep immediately after (not during) my one hour of TV per night, so it must not be interrupting my sleep much!

It's a cool (or not) 86 and I'm about to take the dogs out to the yard and meditate in the pergola.  Other than that, it's been mainly a quiet, organizational sit in the comfy chair day. I did, however, order a dozen Krispy Kreme delivered to the door. Tis a good thing my church keeps it's videos up on FB for a week, because I'll be doing morning prayer sometime this evening!

The good news is that everything is leafed out and the vines and the tree keep my poor old pergola in shade after like noon. The bad news, as shown in the foreground, is that my poor, very old crab apple tree has fire blight!

My sister is headed out to see a friend (longer time readers may remember we have a pal in the old part of downtown Denver who literally has a small garden and bees in her back yard and sells stuff from her front yard along with teaching about and making natural products).  She really needs the interaction more than I do, so I'm glad she's wandering off this afternoon. I'll take a short drive today once I'm sure my (obviously limited) assistance is no longer required in the furniture assembly portion of the day.

Like I said, mainly I've spent this sunny day sitting in my comfy chair. I decided to organize and delete on Pinterest-especially since I use pinterest instead of files or book marks to save projects, patterns, and road trip ideas and such I want to refer to. I actually migrated all my book marks to Pinterest. I also worked on a long term budget based on different moving dates and two scenarios as to whether I will go to Texas ahead and visit or not. I don't want to leave brother landlord hanging so if something comes earlier than we discuss (or later even) I want to be prepared to pay him and still move, ya know?

I planned my online and grocery orders so that tomorrow or Tuesday I can just hit the button. I might actually do pickup this time instead of delivery, how different of me.

Sister has started looking for jobs. She's in an unusual position cause she really both wants and needs to work, but plans to stop when she takes SS or shortly after (which would be in March) so she's trying to figure out how to deal with employers, even contract ones. Assuming she is gone and son is working up to sixty hours a week what with restaurants back in play and there always being a shortage of employees, I could be basically single except in the late evenings.

With me still being home and one of the "slow exiters" (or is it the opposite, I'm not sure), I've decided I need to look beyond this short and general list of things I can do that will make me happy that I posed last week. It's 90 days till fall and I'm not at al sure how much if any of the traditonal out of the house things I will get to do. Hence the new summer bucket list goal, of small individual things that will make me happy day by day.  Will said list have ninety things?  Doubtful. But one can always try.